If I am following – staying within the walls makes it a ‘room design method’. 
You can ignore the walls and do an area/density… or stay in the walls, but then 
it is not technically and ‘area/density’. So yes, but no…

If I am following correctly (?)….

Matt


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Do you ignore the walls if rated when using area/density method or does the 
rating cause you to have to stay within the limits of the rated walls?

Thanks,

Cliff Whitfield, SET
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Bullseye

We IGNORE walls unless rated and using the room design approach is the starting 
point

Roland

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On Jul 10, 2019, at 10:17 AM, Sean.VanGaal 
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Do what Mike said but pick up the 12th sprinkler off the 4th line.  I would 
imagine the intent of NFPA 13 was to calculated 4 sprinklers on a line as your 
worst case scenario to prove the line size.  Then pickup 12 sprinklers total to 
get an appropriate total flow.  So the standard reference 3 lines to do this as 
that is the common scenario.

Applying this assumption to your scenario, your 1st two lines have at least 4 
sprinklers per line so those are easy enough.  Your 3rd line only has 3 
sprinklers so pickup all 3 and then pick up the 4th sprinkler on the 4th line.  
You now have 12 total sprinklers flowing, and the last 4 of these sprinklers 
are going to overflow more than they normally would if they were on a single 
line (assuming tree/end fed system).  So this should be a more conservative 
design than what NFPA 13 requires.  But you also aren’t forcing yourself to go 
ultra conservative by calculating 5 or 6 sprinklers on a single line which I do 
not believe was NFPA 13’s intent.

Thanks,
Sean VG

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Mike-
The lines on the other side of the wall only have (3) heads per line.

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Why don't you use 2 lines on one side of the wall and 1 line on the other side 
of the wall thus 3 lines with 4 heads?

Mike

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I have an ESFR system that I do not have (3) rows of (4) heads to calc. Due to 
compartment wall layouts I have (2) rows of (6) heads and (6) rows of (3) 
heads. What is the best way to grab (12) heads?

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